Physical Science

RELATIVITY The Special and the General Theory, (C)1961 by the Estate of Albert Einstein Authorized translation by Robert W. Lawson, University of Sheffield RELATIVITY is a classic of scientific literature. I now appreciate Albert Einstein much more than before after…
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The Romans, many centuries ago, gave the planet its name, given in honor of their god of war, Mars. Mars is also called the Red Planet, due to its dark red color. But what makes Mars look red? Is it…
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Dr. Wernher von Braun, widely regarded as “The father of modern rocketry” was born in Wirsitz (at that time part of the kingdom of Prussia) in 1912. When that area was annexed into Poland in 1920, the von Brauns moved…
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Stopping a large jet aircraft is definitely no easy feat, not to mentioned safety is of utmost importance. To land a large aircraft properly takes a lot of skills and years of training and experience. The following discusses the techniques…
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Ice floats since it goes to the very opposite of thermodynamics. The belief of solids sinking to the bottom is the norm but ice doesn’t do that even though it appears to be a solid. Instead ice floats on top…
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We are the aliens Scientists from around the world have gathered at London’s Royal Society to debate the merits of contacting alien civilisations, but they should also discuss another pertinent problem: that humankind may be living anomalies in an anomalous…
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Why don’t ships sink? When things are put into water they make room for themselves by pushing it aside. You push water aside when you get into a bath. That’s why you have to be careful not to overfill it….
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For anything to float, it has to be less dense than the medium it is in, and, it has to be able to displace an amount of fluid equal to it’s own weight. Water is one of the few substances…
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The Quantum Brain, Parallel Worlds and Time Shifts Modern physics has determined that energy is information. Therefore entropy is a condition of increasing chaos in the order of the underlying information contained in quantum energy. [Quantum physics] The information contained…
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Spoerer law states that the latitudes at which sunspots appear on the surface of the sun gradually change from latitudes in between 30-40° north and south of the sun´s equator at the beginning of a solar cycle to latitudes in…
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